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" We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it. "

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" For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span. "

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" Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future. "

" Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. "

" From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations. "

" I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. "

" I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America. "

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" You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' "

" I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. "

" Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one. "

" I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. "

" Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. "

" Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. "

" At the OECD, we stand ready to continue to help our member and partner countries to design, promote, and implement Better Policies for Better Lives. "

" Design is everything. Everything! "

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" It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next. "

" Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. "

" I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. "

" Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%! "

" I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business. "

" I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at. "

" The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. "

" The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. "

" Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education. "

" How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed. "

" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

" In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. "

" I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common. "

" I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84. "

" I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites. "

" I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority. "